This is also a very personal thing. I have some strength goals myself, and have been accurately tracking my progress.

I have gone into other people's logs, particularly those who are at a comparable level to mine in terms of their goals. For example, Tacoman and I frequently encourage each other. With regards to pull-ups, we have different training methods, but are at similar levels. If I saw Tacoman gaining a lead in terms of how many pull-ups he can do, I would regard his training method more effective than mine and would probably try out his GTG method, but from that to saying 'So you can do 10! HA, I can do 11, and with one arm tied behind my back!' I think if you fall into that, you're doing yourself a HUGE disservice, so it's kind of a personal choice.

I say put it out, let each individual make of it what he/she may

except...Leon...



Ya see, 'Luny' is a variation of 'Lunar.' This means that Leon is really refering to a Leon-Lunar-Leap. And I'm sure you know how far that is...

There is no consistency in the current jo0urnals - which makes it hard to turn into statistics

If we made one thread and each member updated their info, you could loook down a list

Broad Jump Thread -

Leon 11.2' 3/30/92
M2 3.5' 2/27/04  3.6' 6/13/08
Dac Akh 9.4' 4/23/05 10.2' 5/12/08
Skipper 23' 10/17/07

Then you can go look in the user's training journal first post to find all their stats if you're so inclined and see what they have been doing.

When someone beats their old PR by a significant amount (in other words this thread is not for a .5 inch gain in a month, but 3" over 6 months maybe) then they can update the thread that has just name - distance - date, or name-height - date, or whatever I did- date

... which would not be a problem if it were just a personal thing.  But, since the goal of the new board is to compare with other people, I agree that the original Training Journal board was insufficient.  Here's hoping that there won't be any idiots out there who kill themselves trying to break someone else's record, but I guess humanity gains in the process so the trade-off is acceptable.